This must be the most newbie question ever, but I can't find these great sesi video tutorials that I keep hearing about.

I've just downloaded the 3dbuzz ones and they seem very good but I want as much reference as possible. Why can't I find the sesi ones? I guess I'm just being blind.

Anyway, I hope someone can point me in the right direction. Also some of the post here mention a Houdini book. I'd definitely like to get that too, but I don't know the title or where I can find it. I had a quick look on Amazon but it didn't show up.

Thanks in advance

check this out

http://sidefx.vislab.usyd.edu.au/houdini_video/index.htm [sidefx.vislab.usyd.edu.au]

Hello,

The old video Tutorials can be found here:

http://sidefx.vislab.usyd.edu.au/houdini_video/by_topic/general/index.html [sidefx.vislab.usyd.edu.au]

The Magic of Houdini book can be found here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1598630822/sr=8-1/qid=1146403265/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-4776333-3454327?%5Fencoding=UTF8 [amazon.com]

Hope this helps,

/Rick

Wow, thanks guys thats great. The books on its way now and the vids look great.

Can't wait to get into mantra. I heard it uses the reyes algorithm same as renderman, is that right? Does that mean it's pretty fast?

Pretty much. Mantra is a hybrid renderer and can render micropolygons and raytrace and both at the same time depending on what is going on.

plain speed is not as important as people usually think. Render in OpenGL if you really need speed. What is great in PRMan, Mantra and view others is beautiful relation between “image quality” and “speed”. Very often people do some unserious tests with two ball on grid with GI or something and after that they say: “well! final render is much faster!”.

Make your scene really heavy, turn on antialais x12, displacement, motion blur and still be able to control quality of every pixel on your image, increase or decrease it according to your needs, whatever. And after all mantra stays on top (with view others), while many others were lost in space of hundreds of hours of rendering.

“The curve of productivity”:




cheers,
SY.


PS Sorry for this curvature

Nice one. Houdini's looking better and better. I know all about that red curve from using mental ray in 3ds max :wink:

here are some more

http://www.cmivfx.com/tutorials.asp [cmivfx.com]

3D Buzz have a whole section of VTM that you can watch. Very comprehensive. They have one for Houdini.

Go to:

http://www.3dbuzz.com/vbforum/sv_home.php [3dbuzz.com]

…become a member (It's free.) then click ‘video traning’ at the top of the home page and scroll down.

Enjoy.

Slave1

I think tleave2000 already downloaded those tutorials…